Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I think that Canon's domination of the pro market has more to do with investment in that market and the customer support than with the optical quality of the lenses. Another consideration: most pros shoot with long or longish lenses (certainly sports photographers, paparazzi, and probably also many ordinary news photographers) where Canon is quite OK. Their wide angles are where the problems are--I can attest to that as well. Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On Jul 1, 2009, at 4:03 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > You could just make a large print yourself and see if you see > anything funny > before you get hints! > > > Again my problem with Tinas idea on wide angle Canon fringing (and > Henning > agrees) is this is the dominant camera system of the decade. > So why are we not hearing about this from everybody shooting with it > Full frame Canons with canon wide angles on it. > And how can it be the dominate camera as of late with these huge > problems? > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:32:07 -0500 >> To: 'Leica Users Group' <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon >> >> Tina, >> >> I know nothing about chromatic aberration, color fringing and the >> like for >> the Canon, even after looking on Google. I have some Canon L >> lenses, and >> the full-frame Canons seem attractive. Can you point me to some >> sites or >> images that would show the effects? I am interested in things that >> show up >> on prints, say up to 16x20X. Thx much. >> >> Ken > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information